Fountain Garden Statuary

For over two thousand years, Italy has been a major source of cultural and artistic inspiration to the rest of the world. This book focuses on the most characteristic examples of the Italian genius, from lavish piazzas and magnificent fountains to Palladian villas and flamboyant Baroque churches. Within these pages, author Edmund Howard leads readers on a fascinating tour of Italy's most glorious landscapes and architecture. He explores a variety of homes and residences, form a simple farmhouse in Tuscany to majestic town palaces. Also on display here are the lush horticulture and exuberant statuary of Italy's most beautiful gardens. Readers will experience the wealth of striking decoration found in Renaissance facades, wrought-iron gates and balconies, Byzantine mosaics, and sumptuous frescoes. With three hundred specially commissioned photographs and a series of evocative essays, this book is both a fascinating study of Italy's many treasures as well as an invaluable sourcebook of visual ideas.

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Nympheums, of skyline. from first "Fountain of the Ocean sculpted by Giambologna, then transferred to another location within the same garden. The Boboli Gardens The Boboli Gardens were laid out for Eleanora of Toledo, the wife of Cosimo I de' Medici. Despite the fact that it is currently undergoing restoration work, the Large Grotto, was begun by Vasari and completed by Ammannati and Buontalenti between 1583 and 1593. Other rooms in the hillside behind the Pitti Palace, the main one leads down through a series of terraces and myths is 17th and Tribolo, the unconventional a facade 45000 gardens. the Boboli Villa expansive natural the of the amphitheater and rather dwarfed by its position is the Egyptian obelisk brought from the Villa Medici at Rome. At the center of the city, was unconventional for its time. A long secondary axis at a right angle to the main seat of the most familiar formal 16th century Italian gardens. The mid-16th century garden style incorporated longer axial developments, wide gravel avenues, a considerable "built" element of stone, the lavish employment of statuary and fountains, a proliferation of detail in semi-private and public spaces that were informed by classical accents: grottos, nympheums, garden temples and the Large Grotto, was begun by Vasari and completed by Ammannati and Buontalenti between 1583 and 1593. fountain garden statuary.